Re: [Zope] Can multiple processes access a ZODB3 file?

2000-07-30 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
As Chris already stated (many times 4 effects:) ZODB is process locked. The question than becomes what kind of process interaction do you want with the zodb. most everything can be done by having hooks into zope and interacting with those hooks from your external python process. examples are a

Re: [Zope] Can multiple processes access a ZODB3 file?

2000-07-28 Thread Bill Anderson
Ross Boylan wrote: If I have Zope running, using ZODB3 on Data.fs, can a separate process also use ZODB3 to access Data.fs? I have my suspicions, but I'm not sure. I'm interested in this because I'm in the middle of a balloting period. People email me their ballots. I will need to

RE: [Zope] Can multiple processes access a ZODB3 file?

2000-07-28 Thread Chris McDonough
The ZODB is generally process-locked. It's not possible, to my knowledge, to access it from different python processes simultaneously. To solve this, I'd highly encourage you to use ZEO, despite your desire not to use it. There's very little to learn with ZEO, and its proven very stable over